The phrase "a causative one" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a grammatical structure or expression that indicates a cause-and-effect relationship.
Example: "In this sentence, 'She had him fix the car,' the verb phrase is a causative one."
Alternatives: "a causative expression" or "a causative construction".
In addition, the association shown in this manuscript is not necessarily a causative one.
The association between aging of the lens and ischemic heart disease may well be a causative one.
While the activation of microglia and the subsequent degeneration of synapses are coincident in time and space, the association may not be a causative one.
The striking correlation of low GH to individual cardiovascular risk factors suggests an important role for GH in the clustering of these risk factors, whether or not the relationship is a causative one.
As sporadic MSI colon cancer is caused by promoter methylation of a mismatch repair gene (MLH1, MSH2, or MSH6) the association between MSI and the high levels of DNA methylation in CIMP is considered a causative one [ 9, 10].
This would in turn imply that the relation between high IRG expression and RTX non-responders is not a directly causative one.
We advocate that if one searches for a causative pathogen, one should search for treatable pathogens like B. pertussis.
After filtering, variants were always confirmed, including the putative causative one (Table 1).
This is of particular importance when different potential pathogens are found concurrently in one faecal specimen and the causative one(s) have to be differentiated.
Coates et al (2000) assumed that, if the mechanism underlying the association between HRQOL and survival is causative, one should expect to see HRQOL parameters being prognostic of clinical outcomes, not only in patients with metastatic disease, but also at an earlier stage of the disease.
The most significant SNPs described here are probably not the causative ones for our study traits due to extensive LD.
